Poland News

Qatara s largest investment bank has denied buying the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards in Poland.

Video footage of Pennsylvania-based black/death metallers SATHANAS performing on March 13, 2009 in Poznan, Poland during the European Excommunication tour can be viewed below .

An art project that would transform a tall chimney into a minaret drew controversy in western Poland as critics said it mocked Catholics, a Polish daily reported Friday.

The party of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared that its countrymen expelled by Poland after the Second World War have a 'right to a homeland' and said the deportations should be condemned under international law.

Jefferson City -- Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Wednesday that names a Missouri highway adopted for trash pickup by a neo-Nazi group after a rabbi who narrowly escaped the Nazis during World War II.

As Ivor Lichterman led prayers at Warsawa s only pre-war synagogue, he was a oeovercome with awea to be standing where his father led the last services before the Holocaust wiped out 1,000 years of Jewish history.

Poland's prime minister said Wednesday that his country is seeking closer economic cooperation with states in the Persian Gulf region.

A In so many ways, the scenes from Tehran look eerily familiar: the massive demonstrations full of idealistic young people demanding that their voices be heard;A the equally massive show of force by the riot police, leading to at least 20 deaths, countless beatings, and hundreds of arrests; the wrenching images of a young woman bleeding to death ...

For the second time in two years, Polish officials began building a new museum of Jewish history in Warsaw on Tuesday that they hope will become a major cultural landmark.

Poland is not the key to the Lisbon Treaty, Polish President Lech Kaczynski said on Monday at a meeting with diplomats.

The Holocaust nearly obliterated a millennium of Jewish life in Poland but a new website aims to bring it back in cyberspace by piecing together scraps of memories on life before the Nazis.

Sightseers are something new to members of St. Casimir Catholic Church. In fact, it's been awhile since their landmark church drew any kind of attention at all.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin 's attendance at an observance of the start of World War II in Poland would hold symbolism for Poles, Polish officials say.

EUROPE/POLAND - Catholic weekly Niedziela opens new Year of the Priesthood web site with texts of the Magisterium and testimony on the part of members of faithful on priests whom they have encountered in their lives Czestochowa A- A'Fidelity of Christ, Fidelity of the Priest - Year of the PriesthoodA' is the title of a web site launched by Poland's ...

Six San Francisco high school and college students will join Annie Glass, a Holocaust survivor from their city, on her first trip back to Poland since World War II.

Comment about "Poland's NecroExpo: Where the Grim Reaper cashes in" Phone Name Comment 0 Jonathan Fowler, AFP A man sizes up a crucifix for a coffin at NecroExpo, a trade fair for Poland's flourishing funeral business.

Religious Life Submitted by Holly Shulman on 2009-06-23.   Hazzan Sanford Cohn of West Hartford's The Emanuel Synagogue will be embarking to Poland on Sunday, joining cantors from the across the U.S., Israel, Canada and Europe on a historic concert tour, honoring their heritage and highlighting the remarkable Jewish revival underway in Poland ...

When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw's former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew.

So, David Cameron and William Hague have defied their critics and announced the formation of a new grouping within the European Parliament.

Conservatives from eight EU countries have formed a new caucus in the European Parliament, potentially upsetting the power balance in the legislative branch after a big conservative win in elections in early June.